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That's actually the point. Archaeologists are always searching for information about ordinary life. There is tons of data on famous people, kings, leaders, warriors. But very little on day to day life.



That's why Archaeologists are so keen on garbage dumps.

(And to anyone worrying that our digital artefacts are much shorter lived than clay tables: We are producing more garbage than almost any society before. They'll be plenty to piece together.)


Interesting point. I'm not sure we should continue contributing that much though.


Recycling is the bane of archaeology. Science or nature, choose one.


You misunderstood. (and others did too, judging by the downvotes).

I meant that they could better than finding copyrighted images. As they are standard images, they can surely find non-copyrighted materials.




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